Give Up Your SUV — And Other Nauseating Hypocrisy
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Give Up Your SUV — And Other Nauseating Hypocrisy | Editorial Blog at Motor Trend
Our own senator Dianne Feinstein wants us Californians to carpool and only run our dishwashers when theyre full both reasonable suggestions. But her motivation for our frugality isnt saving the earth — its to offset [...]
Food for thought
The Captain’s Journal » The Swing of the Pendulum
Now that Marcus Luttrell’s book “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10″ is a national bestseller, maybe Americans are ready to start discussing the core issue his story brings to light: the inverted morality, even insanity, of the [...]
Muckraked » Blog Archive » Turning the Page: The Real Che?
Muckraked » Blog Archive » Turning the Page: The Real Che?
He’s the ultimate symbol of radical chic but was Che Guevara really a homophobic, racist square who personally ordered the jailing and executions of innocent men, women and children?
That’s according to Humberto Fontova, the author of “Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots [...]
Why “fair and balanced” is neither
From 1903 through 1908, two young bicycle mechanics from Ohio repeatedly claimed to have built a flying machine. They demonstrated it over and over again to hundreds of people, obtained affidavits from prominent citizens who witnessed their efforts, and even produced photographs of their invention at work.
Nevertheless, Orville and Wilbur Wright were dismissed as frauds and hoaxers in the Scientific American, the New York Herald and by the U.S. Army and many American scientists.
But as Richard Milton points out in his entertaining book, “Alternative Science,” the real shocker is that even local newspapers in the Wrights’ home town of Dayton ignored the story in their backyard for five years.
News You Won’t Hear: Terrorism Is Down Almost Everywhere
News You Won’t Hear: Terrorism Is Down Almost Everywhere
Good news is no news, at least when it comes to the war on terrorism.
On Monday evening, the State Department released its annual Country Reports on Terrorism showing a number of interesting findings, including steep declines in terrorist attacks and murders in many regions of the globe. [...]
War Never Did Anything Good Except Save 40,000 Babies In Afghanistan And 15,000 Babies In Iraq
War Never Did Anything Good Except Save 40,000 Babies In Afghanistan And 15,000 Babies In Iraq
INFANT mortality in Afghanistan has fallen dramatically since the demise of the Taleban, according to a new study, with 40,000 fewer babies dying every year.
Improvements in women’s access to medical care since the Taleban were ousted from power five [...]
Fred Thompson on US Lack of popularity
By Fred Thompson
Sticks & Stones
It bothers Americans when we’re told how unpopular we are with the rest of the world. For some of us, at least, it gets our back up — and our natural tendency is to tell the French, for example, that we’d rather not hear from them until the day when they [...]
School Scraps Nature Course As Pigs Enrage Muslim Pupils
You’ve GOT to be f***king kidding me:
AMSTERDAM, 27/04/07 - A school in Amsterdam has halted lessons on rural life because the Islamic children refused to talk about pigs. Reporting this, Alderman Lodewijk Asscher said he wants to take “tough measures.” Subsidies for all kinds of dubious groups must stop and parents of unruly children [...]
“I got a quote for that douche, harry reid”
At Patdollard.com, an email from one of the boots on the ground:
yeah and i got a qoute for that douche harry reid. these families need us here. obviously he has never been in iraq. or atleast the area worth seeing. the parts where insurgency is rampant and the buildings are blown to pieces. we need [...]
Sheryl Crow, singer-hypocrite
Rocket scientist Sheryl Crow decided that one of the best ways to prevent global warming is to impose a ban on toilet paper; we should all limit ourselves to one square . How positively ascetic of her to decide how much TP I need on my ass.
But, an examination of her concert rider reveals a [...]